Marco Arment

Could you have it up and running to the point where you could use it for something in time for your class, given how long it would take for the Mac to do its whatever network boot setup, home directory configuration, blah, blah, blah.

You know what I mean?

Like having all your stuff there.

I'm not sure how people configure MacBooks in school systems, but if it's a one-to-one type thing, I have to imagine there's more local stuff online.

Or even if there's not any local stuff.

But you got to log in, right?

Do they all log in as like a school account?

Right, but is it individual school Google?

I'm saying you've got to type something in the login prompt.

You have to log in as a user.

Oh, I see what you mean.

Yeah, I guess I don't know how they do that.

You know what I mean?

And it's like, okay, well, if I just give you a blank one, what's the user account?

And if there is no user account, how long does it take?

Even if there's like a network thing that just sets it up, like you just, it's single sign-on, you enter in your school email address, like the time taken to just set up the home directory or whatever, I'm not saying it's going to take forever, but I just feel like Chromebooks have an advantage here in that they can probably let you do a Google ID, you know, log in with the Google type thing to a Chromebook faster than you can do the equivalent on the Mac.

I'm guessing people can write in and tell me.

The second thing is...

The repair.

And that's where I think a lot of the teardowns in the Neo come in here.